Another prisoner caught trying to sneak drugs into jail

ALBANY -- For the third time in as many weeks, the Albany County Sheriff's Department arrested a person for attempting to smuggle drugs into the jail.

According to Sheriff Craig Apple, Elliot Vazquez, 44, of 315 Colonie St., attempted to sneak heroin and a hypodermic needle into the jail in his sneaker. He was being processed into the jail for violating his parole.

He stands charged with felony promoting prison contraband and criminal possession of a controlled substance a misdemeanor.

Vazquez was arraigned in Town of Colonie Court and remanded back to the jail without bail.

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Last week, Michelle Richards, of Troy, was arrested for trying to sneak heroin and a needle into the jail and two weeks ago Andrea Amanatides, of Albany, was caught after the condom she had secreted in her body broke, spilling some 260 pills she was trying to smuggle into the jail on the floor. That incident was caught on film.